Raven Walks - Vampire Erotica e-book Available on Amazon

Vampire Raven Crowe stalks balmy New Orleans nights, seeking the prey that will ultimately succumb to his insatiable and lascivious desires. Though disease runs through his veins, his only threat is to the virtue of those who wish to refrain from their baser desires. He journeys through the midnight hour with only a sexual conquest in mind.

With a gaggle of groupies ever willing to offer up their bodies and their necks for his hunger, there was never any real need to take anymore than necessary from the hapless mortals who know nothing of the rigors of immortality.

It's not easy to be a blood sucker with a conscience.

Especially since the game hasn't changed much for Raven over the past few hundred years. In short, Raven Crowe is bored. He wants someone to match his prowess at seduction, one who will challenge him as more of an equal. He's grown tired of the devotees who are easy marks for his dark, powerful stare and the call of his tireless libido.

That was when he saw her – a mysterious redhead who narrowly escapes his grasp at the onset of our story. Somehow he senses she might be the one, and the chase is on to quell his obsession.

Unfortunately when he finally comes face to face with this nameless temptress, she happened to be on the arm of his nemesis – Constantine La Rouche. As the only vampire Raven had ever turned, Constantine never let him forget the intense hatred he harbors for the man who had damned him to an eternity of painful solitude away from his dearest love.

That Raven obviously lusts for the beautiful and mysterious Abigail makes her even more attractive to the vindictive Constantine.

But the stakes are much higher than an age-old grudge from a petulant vampire. Another Creature finds Raven's – and Constantine's – insatiable lust one to not only mirror … but destroy. One by one each of their conquests are targeted by a hideous and grotesque long-dead vampire lord with mysterious power.

Added to the unsettling events, the introduction of Abigail's sister, the even more mysterious Ginger, whose skin causes vampires to burn upon casual contact. The more he gets to know her, the more Raven finds her the most desirable forbidden fruit of all.

Events escalate as Raven, Constantine and Abigail learn their fates lie in Ginger's hands – hands that are sworn to destroy all things vampire.

The love/hate relationship between vampire master and slave, sister and sister take a back seat when they realize that the only real danger worth fighting is that of the vampire/warlock who has vowed to destroy anything and everyone touched by Raven and Constantine. More dangerous than a vampire, more powerful than a witch – this master of evil is hell-bent on destruction can only be defeated by something he's never before confronted.

A huntress who has been trained and equipped to kill vampires from the inside out.

Love and lust, revenge and justice all collide with one human's willingness to risk it all for those whom she longs for but can never have. The hunter voluntarily becomes prey because Ginger finds in Raven something he finds in her: an equal. One to desire... one to fear. One to protect... one to resist at all costs.

Desire comes alive in the darkness where Raven walks.

Who's taking you home tonight?

“Raven Walks” is the debut erotic novel from Ivy Greene, and is an X-rated hedonistic romp through the darkened underbelly of New Orleans. Heat rises from each chapter that will have you turning page after sexy page, toward an exciting and horrific finale you will never see coming.

(As an extra bit of salacious fun, see which sexy celebrities you recognize that were used as prototypes for the sexy vampires in this ultimate fantasy with a bite. This started around the enigmatic hero of our tale, Raven Crowe... whose long dark hair and mesmerizing dark eyes are amplified by his rock god appeal.)

Read the PG-rated sample chapter posted here... "Raven Walks" - Chapter Two

Comic Squad, Kindle Edition - Now Available on Amazon!

When twelve-year-old Alice Thorton moves to strange and unusual Stone Gully, the only tie she has to her recently deceased dad is his prized Joe Dakota comic book collection. The only other person in town who seems to show any interest in this treasure trove is Dwight, a forty-year-old kid and sniveling comic book store owner, who has his own purposes for some of her more rare memorabilia.

He snatches a pair of 3-D glasses to go with his own copy of the matching comic book. In a cyclone of color and light that changes him from a flesh and blood man into a two dimensional drawing in the book, he realizes too late that this extremely rare combination actually opens a portal between the comic book world and his own.

When dastardly Dr. Horror escapes into their sleepy little town, he and his henchman Twitch turn the entire burg on its ear by switching the personality of each adult thanks to a strange blue potion. This chaos buys him some time until he can perfect his ultimate weapon - his mind control potion - uninterrupted.

It is a dangerous concoction that the new world and its fascinating elements can finally help him complete, and he has already singled out a target - the owner of the town's nuclear power plant.

The new world also makes Dr. Horror stronger and younger by the day. Not so coincidentally it simultaneously steals the strength of his nemesis, the superhero Joe Dakota, the minute he tries to join the kids and subdue the villain.

That means it is up to the geeks and the outcasts - a band of misfits, thrown together by their common knowledge of all things comic book - to defeat the bad guy and save their families, their town... and possibly the world.

You used to call them geeks.

Prepare to call them heroes.

"Comic Squad" is the fun adventure for kids of all ages that challenges each individual to be their own hero, and to appreciate the unsung heroes we have right in our own family. It's a story about friendship, about family and the inner courage within.

Join Alice and the gang for the first adventure of The Comic Squad.

For a sample chapter, read here.

Read more about the back story of this novel on Ginger Voight's Amazon page.

Hollywood Week - American Idol Season Ten

I should preface this by saying that Group Night is my absolute least favorite part of the whole American Idol process. Well that and Sinatra night, but I digress.

Hollywood Week is great TV for Idol. Lots of drama, lots of emotions, lots of opportunity for train wrecks galore. Never is this more rampant than during Group Night, where all these people who are technically competing against each other for these brutal, deep cuts that will end with our quarter-finalists and force them to work together. These people, most of whom are amateurs, are required to work with their competitors by actually coming up with and subsequently performing a choreographed routine.

The potential to fall on their faces is quite high, and the stress always leaves me with a tummy ache by the time it's over.

The only good thing that could be said about Group Night is it really allows the character, or lack thereof, of each contestant to shine through (whether they want it to or not.)

Divas emerge, as do all the underdogs, and people we hadn't even seen before end up in the spotlight to shine with newfound talent.

It is ONLY for this reason I don't skip the entire shebang.

Last night some of the ones I thought would make it through didn't, and some I had hoped would make it got cut. Some I had previously loved I began to love more, and some I kinda discarded completely.

I also began to pray for karma for some of the more annoying ones I truly began to loathe entirely.

One of those: Tiffany Rios.

That she declared last week (in so many words) that she was better than anyone else did not endear her to the group selection process. Her arrogance never wavered, which probably not only had the audience (and her fellow contestants) want to see the train wreck, they likely would have wanted to operate the train.

I'm a big on on respect even for those who technically count as your competition. Early favorite Scotty McCreery immediately hit my shit list when he blew off an earnest group trying to fill the "Day Two member" requirement while he was looking for a group to join.

The rude way he treated Brett Loewenstern, another of my early favorites, put me off instantly.

You can't run on country boy charm and then treat other people with that level of disrespect. Granted he's only 17, but manners are manners are manners. And being from the south myself, I know that's something you can't fake for long without showing your true core disrespect for other people.

Sad to say that's what happened. But even as disappointed as I was, he didn't deserve to be treated even WORSE by the self-important Jordan Murphy.

He put himself in the position of leader who got to decide who got in the group, only to abandon the group at 1am the next morning to seek greener pastures elsewhere.

Needless to say I have no love for Jordan, and really can't see him making it very far with the audience.

Scotty finally found a home with a group that had taken in another Day Two contestant with 15-year-old Jacee Badeaux.

I've loved this little cherub with the voice of an angel since I first saw him sing in New Orleans. He was taken in by another one of my early favorites, Clint Jun Gamboa, the Karaoke King from Long Beach.

This new group then decided to add the deep-voiced Scotty to the mix as a fifth person, although Clint "Jun-bug" was decidedly troubled by the decision.

They too would kick poor Jacee to the curb later that night and send this kid in search for a new group - and a new song - after everyone else had already made their choices.

I. Was. Livid.

Me no like Jun-bug anymore.

Sorry, honey but that was just as diva as what Jordan did.

Eventually Brett's group, who still needed a day 2 contestant, would pull Jacee from the murky cold waters of rejection and give him a home. But the drama continued when Jacee was completely unfamiliar with the music.

As the resident Basket Case, Ashley Sullivan was ready to bring her erratic behavior we saw during the initial audition process right to the drama of Group Night.

She went from excited to join a girl group to almost unreasonably overwhelmed by the constant presence of the stress and the cameras. (Has she not SEEN Idol before?) She promptly decided this wasn't her bag and she wanted to go home. This lasted for most of the show, which left her girl group to fend for themselves while she worked out her wayward emotions.

Of course she came back and went on to perform well given the pressure. By the end of the show I was just completely tired.

Ashley, honey... I say with this with complete seriousness and zero malice or snark.... consider medication.

A group of fifteen and sixteen year olds calling themselves "The Minors" began their rehearsal to perform the classic Queen tune, "Somebody to Love." Their mothers apparently took this opportunity to flex their own creative muscle and began to direct this group.

This immediately stirred up the ire of yet another group performing the same song. James Durbin thought it was a bit unfair that their parents had so much influence when everyone else had to choreograph their own.

I have had my problems with James before, and this night did not endear me to him any more. Least of which is that he screeches his way through every. single. song.

The reason Adam Lambert could whip out his vocal muscle was because he understood the art of layering. There were peaks and valleys, soft notes and screechy screams... but it worked because he didn't depend on the power voice to sell the song.

If James doesn't learn this, he won't be long for this competition. I'm really quite surprised he made it past the Group Night performance.

For the record, the Minors kicked their asses.

As for the Rob/Chelsee thing I'm so over it I can't even talk about it. I gave up on him (the only real person I was rooting for to begin with) around the time he did. That he went home was no big surprise.

Chelsee's another one who will likely suffer from audience perception - I don't see her lasting to the top 10.

In the end, I lost a couple of my favorites, including Devyn Rush:

And Emily Ann Reed:

And discovered a few new favorites, such as Deandre Brackensick, who put the finishing touches on the Minors' "Somebody to Love" so sweet it would have made Freddie Mercury proud:

Matthew Nuss, who has a strong, bluesy rocker vibe with no fear of turning out a performance:

Jacob Lusk from Compton, who showed creativity and a wicked range:

And last, but not least... Carson Higgins, who is just plain fun. Anyone who can sing AND make me laugh = tops in my book.

Some of my favorites are hanging in there, some I didn't even see at all even though I know they had made it through to group night.

Tonight we figure out how we whittle down 100 to 50. After this show I definitely know who I want to go through and who I don't want to see. Chief among those I champion right now are Brett and Jacee, who managed to skate by even when he forgot the lyrics simply because of his unusual circumstances.

If y'all thought I loved em before... that doesn't even touch the maternal instinct I have for them now. And I love Steven for making Jun-bug sweat it out thinking he might go home for his being so douchey. Scotty finally apologized and felt like shit for not standing up for Jacee, which means there could be hope for him yet.

I guess only time will tell. As always.

"Taste of Blood" - Now Available on Amazon!

Reese Mackenzie built a life around fantastic fabrication. As a top reporter at an international tabloid magazine, she made headlines with stories that involved mythical creatures in a modern setting. It was a safe haven for this petite blond with ambition to spare. Especially since real life was often quite a scary place for Reese, who had battled her entire life against scary premonitions that always managed to come true, even when she risked everything to prevent just that.

Eventually she was able to suppress these psychic tendencies underneath prescription medications, and if that didn't work she decided she simply run away. After another vivid nightmare with an all-too-real victim, Reese finagled her way to Romania to investigate a vampire killer.

It sounded perfect, even though she had to share the credit and the accommodations with Brody Vaughn, her flirtatious coworker who cared more about his insatiable libido than his job.

Once Reese and Brody hit Bucharest, however, she makes the frightening discovery that her gift – her curse – was kicked into overdrive, especially concerning the victims of a serial killer who fancies himself a vampire. Victims were turning up completely drained of all their blood from puncture holes in the neck, in some gruesome encore performance of the Transylvania of lore.

Instead of limiting themselves strictly to her dreams, Reese's premonitions begin to arrive via physical contact with future victims. While she tries to piece together her erratic psychic evidence, Romanian police desperate to find their killer hone in on her implausible connection to each of the victims.

Brody becomes her unwitting partner as she investigates the underworld of Bucharest, where human blood suckers lurk in seedy secret nightclubs, ready to make all her nightmares come true. It's a pathway of clues that could lead her to the killer, or send her completely over the edge.

"Taste of Blood" is a gruesome vampire "whodunnit" that takes place in the land of Dracula. This story was formerly optioned as a screenplay and created with the help of a director who pitched the simple concept: "Interview With a Vampire" meets "Se7en."

You can read the first chapter here.

"Dirty Little Secrets" - Paper Back Release

In addition to the Kindle book available through Amazon (via the link above), "Dirty Little Secrets" is now available in paperback form for just $12.99. If you purchase your copy through my Createspace store, you can save 15% with the special code: D3GNHXLB.

Best selling author Marie D. Jones provides the forward for "Dirty Little Secrets," a story that takes an unflinching look at the shame and self-destruction caused by sexual abuse and religious extremism. Though this 19-year old's dramatic coming of age, we are reminded that we are born with a very strong will to survive despite our darkest circumstances.

10% of all sales will be donated to RAINN, The Rape Abuse and Incest National Network.

Love Plus One e-book, Now Available on Amazon!

Shannon McKenna is a shy production assistant with big dreams and even bigger phobias, most of which are not unrelated to her size 12 figure. She coasts along quite comfortably in the “Shadows”, where she lives vicariously from her fingertips as an aspiring writer.

When her similarly sized boss Dixie dangles a carrot in front of her crew to come up with her next TV project, Shannon teasingly concocts a dating reality show with her best friend, the hunky Jake Dalton. Instead of a traditional format, there would be a “mole” at the bachelorette pad, who would provide all the inside scoop of how the girls really behaved to the bachelor in question.

The only wrinkle in her plan is her coworker Rex, or, as Shannon likes to call him, Dogface, Lord of the Reptilian People. Thanks to Dollar Margarita Night she confesses her idea to him. He promptly steals some of her thunder undermining the idea only to pounce on her proposal while she dallies in her insecurity. Thus he virtually robs her from a producing credit.

With a little help from Jake and her fairy godmother Jorge, Shannon decides to sabotage the entire shebang by rigging it from the inside out. She and Jake would star in the show, and the hunky hero would choose the mole - the "Every Woman" - instead of the bevy of beauties that had already been cast.

Problem is, the more they fake it the easier it is for Shannon to feign a budding romance with her best buddy. Before long she has lost her heart, and some of her sanity, as she attempts to navigate the tricky waters of reality TV.

After ten years of friendship she finally realizes she loves Jake, just in time to fight off 20 other women to win his heart.

Love Plus One is a romance that starts from the inside out. Through our plus-size heroine we learn you don't have to be perfect to find our perfect mate... we just have to be brave enough to love ourselves first.

It's a love story for the rest of us, and the debut "Real Woman Romance" by author Ginger Voight.

Dirty Little Secrets, Now Available on Amazon!

Some skeletons in the closet are real. Just ask Grace McKinney, who is haunted, quite literally, by the sins of her past. A boy with wavy brown hair and vacant dark eyes would pop up unannounced to frightfully remind her that no matter where she went in this life, her dirty little secrets always rode shotgun.

This ghost bore gleeful witness to her slow suicide. At nineteen, Grace had already succumbed to alcohol and drug addiction, thanks mostly to her other, more human, tormentor, Mike Beyer.

Mike, too, was haunted by the past. Instead of turning his abuse inward, he spread it to his wife, their children and of course, to Grace. He was determined to make everyone pay for the things he lost, starting with a vulnerable teenaged girl who would do anything to keep the past secret from her father.

Ezekiel McKinney ruled his home and his church with an iron fist. Any congregant who dared to step out of line would be outed and humiliated and forced to make a public choice - God, or sin. And Zeke knew that choice all too well because he was doing a lifetime penance for his own crimes of passion.

His wife, Olivia, knew her place, and expected her daughter to also tow the line without complaint. That Grace had strayed so far down the wrong path was a source of continual embarrassment for the church and for Olivia herself. She was ready to do anything to set the course straight again.

These houses of cards began to crumble when the strange, exotic beauty named Lauren Olsen came into Grace's life the minute she needed her most – the day she accidentally killed Mike's pregnant wife, Debbie. It will be the first domino to fall that unearths all the dirty little secrets that had haunted them all.

Dirty Little Secrets takes an unflinching look at the shame and self-destruction caused by sexual abuse and religious oppression. Though this 19-year old's dramatic coming of age, we are reminded that we are born with a very strong will to survive despite our darkest circumstances.

Read the #1 rated first chapter for free on Helium: Dirty Little Secrets, Chapter One.

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